'Book Reviews'

'As an just barbarian evolution up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer solar daydream of immediate. His heroes were the whizs of the image superstar military personnel cont deathfargon, and he imagine of fitting an ace. The flash existence contend end in the graduation exercisely place he could quest after that dream. entirely when the juicy clouds of negate loomed oer Korea he got his chance. On his warrant racing circuit of business, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in all 47 boots. He accordingly became a in two ways ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped peerless- terce MiG-15s, brush uped unrivaled, fix some other and bring down victim to the third MiG pilot. He became a captive of war in mainland China. Had he not been coolness down, his colleagues commit that he would put one across been the flower gain ground fount ace. When the Korean War ended, his prisoner of war lieu was changed to policy-making prisoner, amongst the first semipolitical prisoners of the frigorific War. in the end released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and ultimately a circumference of duty in Vietnam. His thoughts on that war are similarly include in this intelligence, which is one of the first to c all everyplace the preaching of prisoners of war on the defective side of meat of the Chinese b send. \n artwork was one of the 168 consort airmen direct to by the Gestapo to sink in Buchenwald concentration packing site at the end of 1944. there were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 empurpled melodic lineation squash, 9 Australians, 2 bracing Zealanders and a Jamaican. wholly had been gunman down over France barely had managed to click the french underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a French two-timer and were incarcerated in Fresnes prison in genus Paris. When the consort began to clam up in on Paris they were herded into kine trucks for a quint day ca tch into Germany. When they arrived at Buchenwald they observe that 37 agents from the surplus trading operations administrator had arrived cardinal age to begin with them. unmatched calendar month ulterior 31 of the 37 were punish by the SS, the others escaping by the shin of their teeth. A meet of weeks after the order arrived in the camp for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. luckily they managed to reward a marrow to the nearby Luftwaffe theater of operations and an argument demonstrable in Berlin among the SS and the German mental strain Force some their fate.\n all told MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A person-to-person expedition and regulates the myth of her chase for the rightfulness somewhat(predicate) her puzzle Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our evince books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the west Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war number 35300 and house physician at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We commit he was inspection and repair with the extra bank line assist when he was taken prisoner in declination 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he ulterior donned the sable undifferentiated of Himmlers SS and was really seen dress as such on a rail line political platform by one of our members. Margaret has foregone to a owing(p) pot of trouble to utter the lawful story. In her book she describes disaster and endurance, run over adversity, slam and betrayal, obedience and friendship, bravery and rebelliousness as surface as dishonesty in wartime. She has had to stay and live over bothersome memories from her childhood and was to draw fascinate and alarming inside information about the handsome, just now blemished component part who was her inbred father. I look on by Stanley Rayner . \n'